Jaime Paz Zamora
Jaime Paz Zamora is a politician Bolivia N, born in 1939. He was president of the Bolivian republic of the August 6th 1989 with the August 6th 1993.
Former seminarist having made his classes in the movements gauchists before returning towards social democracy. He is member of the Internationale Socialist.
At the time of the elections of June 1989 its party, the MIR ( Movement of the revolutionary Left ), had arrived in third position with 17 % of the voices. It was combined with the general Hugo Banzer Suárez who had arrived in second position with 24 % of the voices. This alliance is necessary for him to draw aside Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (center-right) which had arrived at the head with 26 % of the voices and thus to be elected president of the republic. The MIR thus obtains the majority of the ministerial wallets.
This election of Jaime Paz Zamora was the surprise of these elections, like the “ marriage of carp and the rabbit ”; indeed, the general Hugo Banzer is a man of the conservative right, which was dictator of 1971 with 1978. Both had savagely been fought in the Années 1970, and in 1980, Jaime Paz Zamora had even by escaped miracle with a mysterious air crash. In 1985, it had mobilized all the left forces to prevent the election with the presidency of the general Hugo Banzer.
About this strange cohabitation, Jaime Paz Zamora declared: “It is necessary to distinguish between what I call the country - camping where the foreign interests act without brake and the country - national project where one worries about the Bolivian interests. ”
Towards 1986, the US government started to be seriously worried expansion of the culture of the coke in the Chapare, but president Jaime Paz Zamora refused to penalize the coke, and asserted a comprehension historical and sovereign problem, it organized the “diplomacy of the coke”, under the slogan “ the coke is not cocaine ”. In the years which followed, several of the leaders of its party, the MIR, were convinced of narcotrafic and bonds with the Bolivian godfathers, stopped and condemned by American justice.
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